That is no mean feat for a man whose work looked head-on at the Civil War, Vietnam and the Holocaust. Wherever we went, Burns was met with adoration. Two days before his speech at Colonial ...

Sarah Botstein has for more than two decades produced some of the most widely-watched and acclaimed documentaries on PBS. Her work, in collaboration with directors Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, includes ...

When it comes to war, some things never change. Though we may battle on new ground and with new weapons, there is always the fact of the fighting — and the fact that stories of war, in all their ...

Martha Ellen Florence was showing previews of Ken Burns' Vietnam War documentary in communities around the state before PBS aired the series last fall, when the Nebraska Educational Television ...

Filmmaker Ken Burns calls the American Revolution the most important event since the birth of Christ, and it all began in ...